Guyana News

The Mackenzie Sports Club (MSC) will soon take on an improved look with the signing of a $5M agreement with Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company (GT&T) yesterday.

Jamaican entertainer Vybz Kartel left the Hits and Jams (HJ) Entertainment promoters, his team and fans confused after he walked off a Caribbean Airlines plane, moments before take-off with no explanation for his actions.

Shilpa Shetty will be the headlining act of the Jamzone Summer Break’s first ever Bollywood Night, slated for this evening at the Providence Stadium.

The proceedings in the $10 million libel suit filed by President Bharrat Jagdeo against Kaieteur News and its columnist Freddie Kissoon got underway yesterday, with Head of the Presidential Secretariat Dr.

Damion Carter, who is accused of the July 29, 2008 murder of Keith Josiah, was yesterday committed to stand trial in the High Court.

Two Venezuelans who pleaded guilty to entering Guyana illegally were yesterday each sentenced to a six-month jail term and fined $30,000.

Dear Editor, A famous American once said that our greatest responsibility is to be good to our ancestors.  

Faizul Razac’s morning devotion was yesterday disrupted when a speeding car jumped his fence and landed in the living room of the upper floor of his building.

A US federal grand jury in Brooklyn, New York yesterday returned an indictment charging Guyanese businessman Edul Ahmad with participating in a mortgage fraud scheme in which he and others fraudulently obtained more than US$50 million in loans.

Residents of Leguan have asked that their Neighbourhood Democratic Council (NDC) be dissolved saying that they are not satisfied with the performance of the “super four” group of officials that run local government affairs on the island.

Magistrate Hazel Octave-Hamilton yesterday remanded a man accused of making a false statement to secure a passport.

(Trinidad Express) Five thousand acres across the country will be used for rice cultivation during the next six months.

(Trinidad Express) A 19-year-old employee with Servisair was yesterday denied bail when he appeared before an Arima magistrate charged with being in possession of close to $22 million in cocaine.

(Trinidad Guardian) The murder toll jumped to 263 yesterday with seven people, among them a woman, murdered in four separate incidents in Arima, Point Lisas and Port-of-Spain.

The ringleader of a US$2 million mortgage scam targeting members of New York’s Guyanese community was sentenced to up to 12 years in prison on Wednesday, the New York Daily News has reported.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Lawyers for the woman who  accused former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn of sexual  assault have explored a deal in which they would scuttle the  criminal case in exchange for a monetary settlement in the  civil lawsuit, the Wall Street Journal reported today.

A US federal grand jury in Brooklyn, New York today returned an indictment charging Guyanese businessman Edul Ahmad with participating in a mortgage fraud scheme in which he and others fraudulently obtained more than US$50 million in loans.

The Guyana Police Association today released a statement on the ongoing row surrounding the alleged relationship between senior members of the force and drug lords.

(Trinidad Express) George Nicholas will stay as chairman of Caribbean Airlines (CAL) after Transport Minister Devant Maharaj did not accept his resignation.

(Trinidad Express) Olympic bronze medallist George Bovell III was injured in a vehicular accident in Mayaro early this morning.